Matthew Jukes
Matthew Jukes has worked in the UK wine business for well over three decades and during this time has written 14 wine books.
Matthew regularly lectures, judges, speaks at wine conferences and runs masterclass tastings for both corporate and private clients all over the world. Matthew is also the creator of his ground-breaking initiative, the One Day Wine School, an indulgent day of tasting and learning first performed in 2006.
He has been the MoneyWeek wine correspondent since 2006 and has written a weekly column for the Daily Mail’s Weekend Magazine since 1999. His four highly-acclaimed, annual wine reports – the Burgundy En Primeur Report, the Bordeaux En Primeur Report, the Piemonte Report and the 100 Best Australian Wines – are published on his website, www.matthewjukes.com.
Matthew is one of the world’s leading experts on Australian wine and, with Brisbane-based wine writer Tyson Stelzer, runs an annual competition in Australia to find ‘The Great Australian Red’. He was made Honorary Australian of the Year in the UK at the 2012 Australia Day Foundation Gala dinner.
Matthew is a winner of the International Wine and Spirit Competition's Communicator of the Year Trophy. His thoughts, recommendations and tastings notes are followed very closely by the wine world at large.
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2018 Valpolicella Ripasso: a simply astounding ripasso
Reviews The flair and richness at the heart of this Italian red is truly sensational.
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2019 Château de Bousval: an enchanting chardonnay from Belgium
Reviews Delicate, haunting and packed with vitality and verve, this Belgian chardonnay is a rare beauty.
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Wine of the week: a quartet of remarkable kiwis
Reviews Matthew Jukes tastes four remarkable bottles from prodigiously talented New Zealand winemaker Jules Taylor.
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Wine of the week: a pair of English beauties
Reviews Bringing out the incandescent beauty of the ortega grape variety, these two English wines are like nothing you will have ever tasted before.
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Wine of the week: a top-flight Californian chardonnay
Reviews A beating heart of refreshing acidity electrifies this dynamic wine.
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Wine of the week: two sensational whites drinking now
Reviews This pair of exquisite whites from two world-famous estates are both eminently affordable and drinking now.
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Wine of the week: an absolute diva from Piemonte
Reviews Fresh onto our shelves, this is one of the most beguiling wines of the moment, says Matthew Jukes.
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Wine of the week: a perky Austrian white with style and panache
Reviews This Austrian grüner offers a little more flavour intrigue than your average sauvignon blanc or chenin blanc.
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Wine of the week: an insanely delicious Kiwi interloper
Reviews This silky Kiwi combines spice and tension with an underlying classiness and flamboyance.
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Wine of the week: the ultimate gift for your palate this Christmas season
Reviews This is one of the few English white wines that can stand shoulder to shoulder with elite-class white Burgundies.
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Six winning Christmas wines
Reviews From a 2004 Château Potensac at the peak of its powers to a top-flight Chablis exuding class and finesse, MoneyWeek’s wine columnist Matthew Jukes rounds up his favourite tipples for your table.
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Wine of the week: the Cape’s finest chenin
Reviews This South African white is a highly polished creation with stunning juiciness, breeding and undeniable style.
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Wine of the week: sound the trumpets for this genuine work of art
Reviews This sauvignon blanc from winemaker Simon Chotard is a genuine revelation.
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Wine of the week: a Burgundy with rakish swagger
Reviews I cannot think of a finer value red Burgundy on the shelves today, says Matthew Jukes.
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Wine of the week: a Rabelaisian delight
Reviews This South African red is one of the most elegant and luxurious wines of the year.
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Wine of the week: a perfectly balanced beauty
Reviews This insanely inexpensive, obscenely-easy-to-get-hold-of wine is the best-value Rhône-shaped red in the country.
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Wine of the week: the most magical Douro white in existence
Reviews This wine's flavour confounds the senses and tantalises your taste buds, says Matthew Jukes.
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Wine of the week: an opinionated shiraz from the Clare Valley
Reviews This inky and powerful Australian red comes with one of the most affordable price tags for a wine of this build-quality.
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Wine of the week: a mind-blowingly exciting aperitif
Reviews This riesling is a bargain and a beauty. And at a sniff under 20 quid, it is positively irresistible.
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Wine of the week: a brave sauvignon blanc that hits the bullseye
Reviews This ultra-rare Kiwi white is a veritable mille-feuille of tanginess, texture and length, says Matthew Jukes.
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Wine of the week: one of the greatest grenaches
Reviews This very serious Australian red tastes like nothing else made from Grenache, says Matthew Jukes.
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Wine of the week: an out-of-body experience
Reviews This is one of the most grown-up and exacting Spanish white wines I have tasted in years, says Matthew Jukes.
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Wine of the week: an unnervingly serious Bojo
Reviews This stunning Beaujolais combines a cherry fruitiness with a stern backbone of minerality and rigidity.
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Wine of the week: load up on this stellar Beaujolais
Reviews With wild, red-berry fruit and a dusting of earthiness and gaminess, this is one of the most thirst-quenching and yet classy wines I have tasted this year.
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